Attention Quote by Audre Lorde

. . . black women . . . are trained from childhood to become workers, and expect to be financially self-supporting for most of…

— Gerda Lerner

Black women come with all sorts of personalities. So it's time for media to wise up and show us in all of our complexity.

— Franchesca Ramsey

For black women our sense of ourselves is not always consistent with the way other people see us.

— Jami Floyd

“Black women who define ourselves and our goals beyond the sphere of a sexual relationship can bring to any endeavor the realized focus of…

— Audre Lorde

Black women have had to develop a larger vision of our society than perhaps any other group. They have had to understand white men,…

— Angela Davis

Black women control the world. We are through being discriminated against.

— Bell Hooks

When you're a black woman, you seldom get to do what you just want to do; you always do what you have to do.

— Dorothy Height

Black women have to know the historical and everyday struggles of black men, and our men have to know the struggles of black women…

— Ruby Dee

Black women must help black men understand their full potential lies not in denying black women full access to their humanity and opportunity, but…

— Michael Eric Dyson

People expect black women to be angry, irrationally so, without reason. They think we are animals and we go around like the Wild Things.

— Claudia Rankine

Black women are some of the most colorful women in the world. We come in all shadeshave so many hair textures..eye colors..body types. In…

— Skye Townsend

I think the media and the Internet and all that stuff, has created this perception of black women as these mammy types, kind of…

— Bill Duke